Indeed, I am really enjoying the kind of discussions going on as to whether the 2017/2018 abandoned league season should be continued or truncated. All these discussions started because the FIFA/CAF liaison team wrote to Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA) to solicit member’s opinions on whether the league should be continued or truncated under the current circumstances.
In my candid opinion, the liaison team erred in the first place in writing to GHALCA for their suggestions because the FA which organized the said league has been injuncted. GHALCA’s statement or report to the committee and reasons stated in it was not different from my understanding of the whole football crisis we are facing as a country.
Whiles the government is still in court seeking to dissolve the Football Association and has sought for an injunction in all football activities, it makes it difficult to organize any league in the country. All the bodies and the subcommittee under the FA and its status and regulations governing the league have been injuncted and for that matter cannot perform their given functions for the smooth running of the league.
Again most of these bodies’ decisions on the league should be ratified by 22 member Executive Committee chaired by the President or his Vice. Under the current circumstances, the Executive Committee cannot meet and even don’t have President or Vice.
It obvious that the best time to welcome our football back will be next year August or September let’s remember good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who wait and the best things come to those who don’t give up so we shouldn’t give up. This period will synchronize with the much talk about European calendar. I believe things would have been normalized and the reforms we are all craving for would have been done by the yet to put in place Normalization committee by FIFA.
I have said that we should understand our situation now and realize that it will take a long while for football to come back. As the saying goes it’s easy to destroy but difficult to fix. I guess we all have something in mind about the level at and which we want Ghana football to be after the reforms but how do we get there? It is incumbent on all of us to come out with ideas to help build our football.
I will want to see Ghana Premier league being organized and run by an independent body either than the Football Association who will bring professionalism to bear to deal with the problems encountered by the Premier League Board (PLB) and make conscious efforts to make the league very attractive for soccer fans.
A word to the wise…………………………
JONES ASANTE MFODWO
JOURNALIST